Yami
[ yah-mee ]
noun,plural Ya·mis, (especially collectively) Ya·mi for 1.
a member of an Indonesian people of Hungtow Island, off the southeastern coast of Taiwan.
the Austronesian language of the Yami.
adjective
of or relating to the Yami or their language.
Origin of Yami
1First recorded in 1910–15; from Yami: literally, “people of the north wind,” equivalent to i- locative prefix + ami “north (wind),” i.e., north of the Ivatan and Itbayat peoples, their closest associates
- Also called Tao for defs. 1, 2 .
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How to use Yami in a sentence
For wife he has the spirit of the clouds and waters, Apsaras, and by her became father of the first mortals, Yama and Yami.
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